english literature MCQs – Page 317

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

6321. The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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A. To create a sense of mystery, gloom, and suspense

B. To make the reader feel distaste for supernatural themes

C. To generate feelings of intense pleasure

D. To make the reader dislike modern society

6322. Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels ?
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A. The end of the Vitalist Controversy

B. The end of absolute monarchy

C. The increase in scientific experimentation

D. The decline in animal dissections

6323. Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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A. Aberrant mental states

B. Violence

C. Sexual rapacity

D. Daydreams

6324. What have literary critics read into the vampirism in Stokers Dracula ?
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A. The vampire represents a beloved father who seeks to gather together all the women and young men (sons).

B. The vampire represents sexual impotence.

C. The novel presents the vampire count as a father-figure of great power.

D. The vampire represents the future.

6325. When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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A. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.

B. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination.

C. The personification of nature is regressive.

D. People are foolishly superstitious.

6326. What is the significance of the bloody bedchamber in Gothic fiction ?
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A. It represents male sexuality.

B. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.

C. It refers to the location of murder in Gothic novels.

D. It symbolizes the forced sequestration of women both before and after marriage.

6327. In The Castle of Otranto which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
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A. It is monstrous.

B. It is essentially fair.

C. It is a necessary part of the social order.

D. It will naturally fall out of favor.

6328. How does the use of Gothic architecture assist the Gothic novelist ?
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A. It engenders confusion for both the novels protagonist and readers.

B. It offers a secure refuge for the novels protagonist.

C. It provides the space for a large community of people to congregate.

D. It represents the glory of a bygone age.

6329. To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
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A. Edmund Lewis

B. Mary Shelley

C. Edmund Burke

D. Sigmund Freud

6330. Based on your readings for the course, which of the following best states how critics often interpret the dead hand in The Castle of Otranto ?
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A. The hand represents the superiority of the Enlightenment over medievalism.

B. The hand symbolizes the danger of marriage.

C. The hand signifies the mysterious pull of the labyrinth.

D. The hand represents the claim of primogeniture over the living.

6331. In The Yellow Wallpaper what does Gilman suggest about madness ?
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A. That it is necessary to contain mad women

B. That female madness is a serious obstacle to womens liberation

C. That men also are mad

D. That it is an artificial patriarchal tool

6332. What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
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A. A focus on the individual

B. An epistolary format

C. Realism

D. An English setting

6333. In Dracula what does the death of Lucy suggest ?
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A. That sexual purity was less important than societys safety

B. That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

C. That women are not one-dimensional

D. That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed

6334. How is the concept of the new woman Gothic ?
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A. It represents the transformation of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.

B. It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or madness in women in the late 19th century.

C. It represents a doubling of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.

D. It represents the pollution of the ideal woman by foreign influences.

6335. In what way does Thornfield Hall differ from the Castle of Otranto, Udolpho, and the Convent of St. Clare ?
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A. It serves as a kind of prison.

B. It is the scene of sexual transgression.

C. It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero.

D. It is the scene of violence.

6336. What is Strawberry Hill ?
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A. The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole

B. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe

C. One of the settings in The Mysteries of Udolpho

D. The inspiration for The Castle of Otranto

6337. What is the origin of the vampire myth ?
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A. Beckfords Vathek

B. Stokers Dracula

C. Ancient civilizations worldwide

D. Walpoles The Castle of Otranto

6338. What is the significance of the Other in Gothic novels ?
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A. They are typically heroes.

B. They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses.

C. They always express deviant sexual tendencies.

D. They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown.

6339. According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror ?
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A. Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul.

B. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.

C. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.

D. Terror contracts the soul.

6340. Why has Bertha been characterized as the madwoman in the attic by literary scholars ?
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A. To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the Other in Victorian England

B. To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane

C. To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well

D. To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel

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